Word: bardac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dyed blonde hair and "steely eyes" named Gabrielle Dupont, who had lived with him and supported him for ten years. Gabrielle had once shot herself over Debussy's infidelity. She recovered, and the whole sequence was repeated seven years later when Debussy left Rosalie to marry wealthy Emma Bardac, mother of one of his pupils. Rosalie fired two bullets into herself, recovered and disappeared from Debussy's life. So did most of Debussy's friends. To Debussy, the scandal seemed in some mystic way to be payment for "some forgotten debt to life." In the years after...
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